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+1 to what adrspach said. It is very hard to judge the translucency, especially given that the hone has been lapped to 325 and you can still see some of the residue trapped in the little nicks and...

Jimmy - Ian's thuringian is on the right in the upright pics and underneath in the horizontal pics, right?

Still doesn't look like a CF to me. Have you honed a razor on both stones? Does the one...

OK - that's clear enough for me! It was just Ian saying "...oh that's the thuri I sold you..." or words to that effect that threw me.

I think what you have to do is take that stone outside and...

Now I'm really confused - Ian at B&B says (over there) that it is the thuringian he sold you???

You still haven't said how easy it was to lap.

Regards,
Neil

This is a very enlarged pic of the surface of a Llyn Idwal hone:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/n1elus/087/l-i-h.jpg

Very like a CF but not quite as fine a finish. Colour is a drab...